Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-01-27
SENATOR HrsoooK.
Wan Of Unblemished Reputation
His 4nliqnAted Tarfff VieNgs.

The. Albany correspondent OF the New
York Times says that the senatorial fight
in New York state proves that il is better
to hunt senatorial game quietly than with
brass hands, Editorially the Times of
TIL lie, ay SAYS
When the Republican caucus adjourned
on Tuesday evening, experienced OBJ
servers at Albany were agreed that the
nomination of Mr.. Miller was the only
alternative to long aud wasteful struggle
It appeared then hardly possible that any
of the men who had stood by the senator
with such steadiness in the face of the
utmost exertions of Mr.. Morton's agents
and managers would abandon him when
victory was so nearly within their grasp.
But last evening after 16 ballots, in
which the Miller column was unbrOken,
Mr.. Morton was withdrawn from the con-
test on the next ballot Mr.. Hiscock was
found to have within one vote of ma.
jority of all the Republican votes in joint
convention, and on the next he was nomi-
mated.
The nomination of Mr.. Hiscock is, as
we have repeatedly said, one with which
the party aud the state have every reason
to be we'll satisfied. He is a much
stronger man as to mental force, ex-
perience, and capacity for legislative work
than either of his immediate competitors
He has an unblemishsd personal reputa-
tion, and in his career in tho House he
has won aud has deserved the respect of
all parties for his candor, courtesy, and
fairness as we'll as for his unquesticned
ability. He has many of the qualities of
leadership, and has in fact more than any
one else been the leader of the Republi-
cans in the House. It is not to his dis
credit that he would have been more of
leader had he been more ambitious and
less honorable. He will enter the
Senate with capital of experience and
OF we'll earned confidence from his fellow
representatives that will be valuable.
Under the traditions of the Senate new
member has to wait for places of inhu-
ence on the committees, but there can be
no doubt that Mr.. Hiscock will attain
such places as rapidly as Eany new man
could.
Our readers are aware that Mr.. Hiscock's
views regarding the use of Federal taxa
tion for the promotion of private interests
are not shared by us. We regard them
as mistaken, antiquated, and, when ap-
piled to the present situation of the coun-
NY " tLo RtutIhl lubtEBblbs
They fairly agree, however, with the
views, or at least with the sentiment, of
the majority of the Republican party in
the state. II may be that Mr.. Hiscock, ,as
the representative, not of the Onondaga
district, but of the whole state of New
York, may come to see that the high
tariff has ceased to be protective and has
become oppressive; that the excessive
revenue ought to be applied TO relieving
he burdens the high tariff imposes on
American industry, and that the Ameri-
;an people, no longer infants in pia nufac-
lures or anything else, demand nu service
of the government save a fair field and
chance to use their own energies
II is to be expected that the unscrupu-
lous gang who have been laboring in the
name of Mr.. Morton, but in their own
corrupt interest, will claim the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Hiscock as their victory, and
will seek to base upon it control of the
party organization in this state. That is
something for which Mr.. Hiscock, in the
absence of bargain that is inconceivable
on his part, cannot be held responsible.
We're Mr.. Hiscock spoils politician, were
the distribution of offices in the hands OF
a Republican President who recognized
the spoils principle, and were the great
Federal offices in this state still
under the spoils regime, there
would be a logical inference that the
nomination carried with it certain pros
pect of control of the party machinery.
None OF these conditions is fulfilled. Mr..
Hiscock is so far from O spoils politician
that he has no reputation at all as poll.
tician of the ordinary sort. He should
go to the Senate as free of entangling or
compromising alliances as any man oonld
be, and as free also to follow his own |
impulses and convictions, which are |
wholly foreign to any prostitution of the |
senatorial office. II the band of mer-
cenaries who have been carrying Mr.. |
Morton's flag and purse in the recent can
vass seize the organization of the Repub-
licau party in the near future, ii can only |
be because the party is willing to have
them do SO. If it be so willing, we do
not know any reason why it should be |
spared the consequences of its fatuity.